For Those Like Steve Zeoli who prefer to write in the pim
Posted by srdiamond15
on 1/5/2005
srdiamond15
1/5/2005 7:09 pm
This may change your mind. . .
Check out http://www.wordtoys.com
A brilliant add-on to MS Word 2003 that provides an enormous enhancement of selection techniques, among other things. Just a taste, here's how you can use it to copy or cut something. Just put your cursor in the unit you want to cut/copy. Then select from a menu: word, sentence, paragraph, heading level, line, page, section, document, window.
Would it make sense to equip a pim with these abilities?
Stephen R. Diamond
Check out http://www.wordtoys.com
A brilliant add-on to MS Word 2003 that provides an enormous enhancement of selection techniques, among other things. Just a taste, here's how you can use it to copy or cut something. Just put your cursor in the unit you want to cut/copy. Then select from a menu: word, sentence, paragraph, heading level, line, page, section, document, window.
Would it make sense to equip a pim with these abilities?
Stephen R. Diamond
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1/11/2005 6:16 am
[Stephen D.: A brilliant add-on to MS Word 2003 that provides an enormous enhancement of selection techniques, among other things. ... Would it make sense to equip a pim with these abilities?]
First of all I think it makes sense for outliners and PIMs to support plug-ins and enhancements the way Word does. A PIM/outliner represents a starting point for creativity and is aimed at much more individualistic ways of working than a word processor; if it's to be attractive it should be able to cover diverse needs
(perhaps because Word is already established, people seem quite willing to adjust to its idiosyncrasies).
Mybase is a PIM that has benefitted from such an approach to offer some unique features and now MyInfo seem to be aimed the same way.
Other than that, I must say that Word still hasn't got buttons for superscript and subscript while Hyperclip, Mybase and others do, as does Textshield. So I for one actually find it less distracting to work with.
alx
First of all I think it makes sense for outliners and PIMs to support plug-ins and enhancements the way Word does. A PIM/outliner represents a starting point for creativity and is aimed at much more individualistic ways of working than a word processor; if it's to be attractive it should be able to cover diverse needs
(perhaps because Word is already established, people seem quite willing to adjust to its idiosyncrasies).
Mybase is a PIM that has benefitted from such an approach to offer some unique features and now MyInfo seem to be aimed the same way.
Other than that, I must say that Word still hasn't got buttons for superscript and subscript while Hyperclip, Mybase and others do, as does Textshield. So I for one actually find it less distracting to work with.
alx